Sentences with phrase «decade of academic progress»

«The data suggests that — despite what is arguably the most remarkable decade of academic progress of any school system in history — we haven't really seen much change in demand from middle class community to enroll their children in public schools,» Kleban said.

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The hallowed principles of journalistic, artistic and academic freedom are threatened, they argue, and only a stout defense of the barricades will prevent a «neo-McCarthy» backlash from overwhelming the social and political progress of the last few decades.

J. R. Campbell, C. M. Hornbo, J. Mazzeo, «NAEP trends in academic progress: Three decades of student performance» (NCES 2000 - 469, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 2000).

For more than four decades, the National Assessment of Educational Progress has provided the best available information about the academic achievement and educational progress of the nation's sProgress has provided the best available information about the academic achievement and educational progress of the nation's sprogress of the nation's students.

Loveless concludes: «The past two decades of education reform in the U.S. have focused on ratcheting up expectations through standards and testing and holding schools accountable for academic progress.

Over four decades, the achievement gap decreased: black and Hispanic students made academic progress while the scores of white students also increased.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states: Michigan ranks near the bottom for fourth - and eighth - grade math and fourth - grade reading on a nationally representative test, nicknamed the «Nation's Report Card.»

Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance.

For more than two decades, the opening and closing of charter schools have resulted in gaps in learning, impeding the academic progress of black and brown children in urban districts like Trenton.

The hard work of these teachers and their colleagues in classrooms across our city have driven the academic progress we've seen over the last decade.